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Who wants to “click and view” the online footage of the Boston bombs exploding?

Watching again and again the split seconds that ended life, severed calves and
ankles, and stained pavements red in a swill of blood and bone feels, at
times, faintly indecent. Having the power to rewind to that carefree
pre-blast moment when limbs and families were still intact, something now at
our disposal with many a modern tragedy, makes armchair omnipotents of us
all, albeit only digitally. Some websites have prefaced their photo-streams
with “Warning: graphic images” but, as we know, such disclaimers can have
the opposite